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Category Archives: Feasts
At Christmas, Families are the Guardians of Tradition.
Nothing makes us aware more poignantly that our permanent home is not on this earth than the Catholic traditions that surround our major feast days. No matter where our earthly home is, it is our Catholic traditions that remain permanent … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, breakfast, Christmas, Feasts, Heraclitus, Herodotus
Tagged Baby Jesus Buns, Christmas Traditions, Egg Strata, Heraclitus
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Resurrexit! Easter Brunch 2021!
My chair (the one that I grew up seeing my wife’s father sitting in at every major celebration!) looks ready to celebrate Easter brunch., even if the table is not. But it knows the virtue of patience and is confident … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, breakfast, Easter, Feasts, Fine Arts
Tagged Buttery Strada, Easter Brunch, Fruit Salad, Hazelnut Star Bread
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Where there is love… Ubi Caritas
Today, Holy Thursday, is the day for singing the ancient chant Ubi Caritas! UBI caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor.Exultemus, et in ipso iucundemur.Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum.Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero. Which I translate … Continue reading
Posted in Feasts, Sacred Music
Tagged Gregoria Chant, Holy Thursday, Maundy Thursday, ubi caritas
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Easter 2020!
Ahh, the joy of waking up on Easter Sunday morning and discovering the table magically adorned with flowers and gifts! We will let the pictures do the talking, from early morning to brunch to dinner. Ordinarily, someone paints the Easter … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, breakfast, Easter, Feasts, Fine Arts
Tagged asparagus, Beef Wellington, Easter Brunch, Eggs Blackstone, Hollandaise
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Feasting on Holy Thursday!
We always have a big feast on Holy Thursday. I suppose this is one of the clever tactics that my family has developed over the years in order to cope with– and build up resources for the imminent fasting on … Continue reading
Mass of The Lord’s Supper 9 April 2020
Although there was no Mandatum tonight (i.e. washing of feet ceremony) nor Eucharistic procession in which the blessed sacrament is reposed in a separate tabernacle, we still managed to get the Ubi Caritas sung at around 33:57. Holy Thursday is … Continue reading
Posted in Feasts, Sacred Music, Sacrosanctum Consilium, The Mass
Tagged Holy Thursday, mandatum, O Esca Viatorum, ubi caritas
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Today, Sing “Ubi Caritas!”
Today, Holy Thursday, is the day for singing the ancient chant Ubi Caritas! UBI caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor. Exultemus, et in ipso iucundemur. Timeamus, et amemus Deum vivum. Et ex corde diligamus nos … Continue reading
Posted in beauty, Easter, Feasts, Sacred Music, Sacrosanctum Consilium, The Mass, The Passion
Tagged Holy Thursday, mandatum, Sacrosanctum Concilium, ubi caritas, washing of feet
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Tenebrae 8 April 2020
Heading into the Triduum – this Tenebrae Service provides a lovely Spiritual warm-up for Holy Thursday. I am thankful for the help that my wife and children provided in singing the various psalms and motets. Among the motets sung (as … Continue reading
Posted in Feasts, Sacred Music, Sacrosanctum Consilium
Tagged Poule Meus, Spy Wednesday, Strepitus, Tenebrae
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The Priest: Privileged Witness of the Reality of Grace Present in the World
On this, the eve of the Epiphany, with the Christ Child still lying in the manger, a great many Catholics everywhere are hoping and praying for a year of renewed grace. And, of course, with the turn of the secular … Continue reading
Posted in Augustine, beauty, Christmas, Feasts
Tagged amazon synod, didache, Epiphany, Maximilain Kolbe, St Stephen
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As Long as Catholics Continue Feasting, Christendom Still Exists!
What is a perennial truth if nothing other than a truth which springs up every year? We who are strangers and sojourners in the city of man, we who aspire towards citizenship in the city of God, we know that … Continue reading
Posted in breakfast, Christendom, Christmas, Dinner, Feasts, Virgil
Tagged Beowulf, Christendom still exists, Enstroms Toffee, Gawain, Ribeye
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